Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing · Indiana

Smith Brothers of Berne

Berne, IN · ~527 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smith Brothers of Berne runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Smith Brothers of Berne: 6.5 TCR = 196% of Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smith Brothers of Berne safety composite

Smith Brothers of Berne scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2021→2024

Smith Brothers of Berne injury rate improved

Smith Brothers of Berne's TCR fell 0.4 from 6.7 in 2021 to 6.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=6.7 · 2024=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Berne, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 196% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #18/27
  • PHOTO WHSE 02
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 53 inj
  • SIZE ~527 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WHSE 02 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smith Brothers of Berne in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Smith Brothers of Berne averages 6.5 TCR (196% of the Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Smith Brothers of Berne TCR series: 2021=6.7 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Smith Brothers of Berne falls in its industry

300 Furniture, household-type, uph establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 27 Furniture, household-type, uph employers in Indiana.

Smith Brothers of Berne (527 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,5002,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Smith Brothers of Berne
Smith Brothers of Berne (527 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Smith Brothers of Berne has more employees than the Furniture, household-type, upholstered o median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 6.3 6.3 22 0 0
2021 6.7 2.6 31 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · IN · Berne

300 Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 10 employers in Berne, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR WHSE 02 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 3 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holly Hunt Manufacturing 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Max Home, LLC 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Undersea Sensor Systems Inc 527 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems 528 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steel Warehouse Company LLC 526 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lear Corporation - Columbia City 529 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swiss Village Retirement Community 302 FTE
CITY-NEAR EP Graphics 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poseidon Barge - Berne 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Micromatic LLC 86 FTE
NAT-TCR Speed North America 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Vega Alta 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR River View Rehab Center 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR United Industrial Service, Inc 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alverno College 527 FTE
NAT-SIZE AWG, Springfield 527 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minh - Pasadena 527 FTE
NAT-SIZE Williamsburg Brewery 527 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.